A 15-year-old Dorchester teen was arrested yesterday (April 13) following a shooting that left another juvenile injured outside a Burger King fast-food restaurant and near the Holland high school near Grove Hall, Boston police said.
Officers assigned to District B-2 (Roxbury) responded around 2:43 p.m. to a report of a person with a gun near 100 Washington St., according to a BPD account. Before the call came over the radio, officers in a patrol car also reported hearing what they believed to be a gunshot.
Police say they found a juvenile male “suffering from a gunshot wound to the foot” and rendered aid until Boston EMS transported the victim to a local hospital. The injury was not considered life-threatening.
Investigators recovered ballistic evidence in the Burger King parking lot, the police report said.
Police broadcast a description of the suspect, who was believed to have fled on a black moped toward Vaughan Avenue. Members of the BPD’s Youth Violence Strike Force canvassed the area and spotted a moped partially hidden beneath a blue tarp.
The teen whom they apprehended nearby “attempted to flee” according to police, but was apprehended after a brief foot chase on Vaughan Ave. Officers recovered a 9mm Taurus 709 Slim handgun loaded with four rounds of ammunition during their investigation on the street.
The juvenile suspect is expected to be arraigned in Boston Juvenile Court on multiple charges, including unlawful possession of a firearm, carrying a loaded firearm, unlawful possession of ammunition, assault and battery by discharge of a firearm, and possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony.
